Re: [videoblogging] Re: Weagel and Bluestein on Content
Just checking back in on this thread and finding that its subject has predictably veered away from content into technical realms. So, to get back on topic... http://www.bullemhead.com/Government/poor_bunny.html YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: Weagel and Bluestein on Content
Its all relative. 147MB for an hours video is really small to me, its very impressive really when we consider that less than a decade ago an hours worth of music was at least 500MB. Yes you could get the file down to 50MB, or make extreme reductions such as the video being at 1 frame per second, but its not without cost. Ideally eerything would be available in different resolutions/bitrates/formats to cater for all tastes. Large file sizes are a bad barrier to some people, but lousy quality video is a barrier to others. Still as soon as we start to offer more than one format, it starts to complicate things for the viewer (eg more than one feed) and add some time to the pproduction process. Even so archive.org provides a good example of the joys of having files in various qualities to suit all tastes. It would be nice to have a future where itunes knows your conection speed and preferences, and picks the suitable version of the video to download, things could be made very easy for the user, but it'l always be a pain for the creators I guess. At the end of the day the content maters more to me than these issues, but then again different sorts of content also affect how much of a compromise its wise to make on resolution, bitrate etc. Theres no way I want filesize issues to put people off videoblogging, but at the same time I and many others in the UK will have 10MB broadband connections by the end of the year, and it will be a shame if the only content available at the quality,resolution etc that such speeds can make realistic, is from big media giants and not more videobloggers. I just think there are 2 quests, both for filesize and quality, as well as the eternal compatibility quest, and we should let either quest domimate at the expense of the other. Cheers Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Kunga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW Amy Goodman's Democracy Now is Video Podcasting 1 hour daily on the iTunes store now. These files are HUGE. Today's hour is 147.7 MB. Now we're talking serious need for more compression. I could have gotten that thing down to 50 MB. YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: Weagel and Bluestein on Content
Oops, should was supposed to be shouldnt. lol it serves me right, the democracy now video is getting on my nerves by taking ages to download. Another drawback to long video length filesize is of course that it compounds any server speed bandwidth cost issues. With my current connection a 150MB file should take I dunno, somewhere between 10 and 20 minutes to download, but many servers dont end up delivering files anywhere near that quickly. Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just think there are 2 quests, both for filesize and quality, as well as the eternal compatibility quest, and we should let either quest domimate at the expense of the other. Cheers Steve of Elbows SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] Re: Weagel and Bluestein on Content
Still that is a huge honking file - even for upper end DSL/Cable users. Is she or her company presenting content that is worthy of that file size? I don't object to people wanting to present their stuff in the best resolution and format. But that size excludes the very people the democracy is suppose to be about. There has to be an effective balance between transmission and presentation. 147MB? This ain't it. Gena http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its all relative. 147MB for an hours video is really small to me, its very impressive really when we consider that less than a decade ago an hours worth of music was at least 500MB. Yes you could get the file down to 50MB, or make extreme reductions such as the video being at 1 frame per second, but its not without cost. Ideally eerything would be available in different resolutions/bitrates/formats to cater for all tastes. Large file sizes are a bad barrier to some people, but lousy quality video is a b arrier to others. Still as soon as we start to offer more than one format, it starts to complicate things for the viewer (eg more than one feed) and add some time to the pproduction process. Even so archive.org provides a good example of the joys of having files in various qualities to suit all tastes. It would be nice to have a future where itunes knows your conection speed and preferences, and picks the suitable version of the video to download, things could be made very easy for the user, but it'l always be a pain for the creators I guess. At the end of the day the content maters more to me than these issues, but then again different sorts of content also affect how much of a compromise its wise to make on resolution, bitrate etc. Theres no way I want filesize issues to put people off videoblogging, but at the same time I and many others in the UK will have 10MB broadband connections by the end of the year, and it will be a shame if the only content available at the quality,resolution etc that such speeds can make realistic, is from big media giants and not more videobloggers. I just think there are 2 quests, both for filesize and quality, as well as the eternal compatibility quest, and we should let either quest domimate at the expense of the other. Cheers Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Kunga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW Amy Goodman's Democracy Now is Video Podcasting 1 hour daily on the iTunes store now. These files are HUGE. Today's hour is 147.7 MB. Now we're talking serious need for more compression. I could have gotten that thing down to 50 MB. YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
